An interview with Spanish diputado and constitutional law professor Gerardo Pisarello, renowned in Mexico for defending the country against the imperialism, colonialism, and racism of the Spanish crown, multinational corporations, and parties such as Vox.
Ultra-right wing (& unelected) Senator Lilly Téllez calls for U.S. intervention in Mexico during a Fox News appearance, false claims from the DEA, Ken Klippenstein’s reporting on US invasion plans, & the Baker Institute’s flawed report.
Poverty is down…and opposition justifications are up. 13.4 million Mexicans were lifted from poverty during the AMLO administration.
Amid turmoil, Trump resorts to threatening Latin America. Soberanía discusses Trump’s call for military strikes on organized crime groups, thawing of Mexico–Canada relations, and new data shows crime down in Mexico
Is there any way for the peoples of the Americas to truly understand each other? Dispatches from the Pan-American Congress and good news on reducing poverty, rescuing PEMEX and holding tariffs at bay. Plus, expanding the definition of “cartel” north of the Rio Grande.
A special cross-over episode with David Griscom of Left Reckoning, on militarized budgets and manufactured crises with Mexico, as well as the erosion of civil rights, lessons from Mexico’s leftwar turn and the international boomerang of US Imperialism from the borderlands to Gaza.
The Trump admin is now meddling in Mexico’s internal aviation rules; USMCA agreement’s biggest beneficiaries have been big multinationals, and borough head of Cuauhtémoc rolls the culture-war dice by removing a popular statue of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
This is getting old: Trump threatens Mexico with tarrifs for the fourth time while Americans sour on his immigration measures and Mexicans sour on the US; plus The Hague Group meeting against Gaza Genocide & a narco-lawyer tries to pick a fight with President Sheinbaum.
$178 billion allocated to immigration enforcement in a disastrous budget that strips away social protections to shower benefits on the wealthy while ratcheting up the punitive state.
As Attorney General Pam Bondi calls Mexico a “foreign adversary” and the US Treasury Department sanctions three Mexican financial institutions, President Sheinbaum’s patience is clearly running out.